Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
From Baltasar Gracian
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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